Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-08-27
DISGUISED AGAIN.
THE NEW BLESSING IN La
BOR POLITICS.
That New Baby-Disnppointment and
DisillusiOn-B Better Now Than
Latcr-The Labor Party
Not Killed The Sy-
racuse Affair.
By DIR. A. DOuAl.

1t is very sad that the brand new
United Labor Party should be n
still-bom child or a baby of very
short lived kind. There is much
tender regret about mother and
child--a dead loss; there is many n
fond hope for the baby's glorious fu-
ture wiped out; there is burial
for the corpse necessary which may
create much bad blood among form
er comrades who were godfathers to
the child, and now may charge each
other with having caused its early
death.
There is even more cause for re-
gret than the one mentioned. We
had placed a high degree of conf
deuce in Henry George and some of
his "coadjutors." Whatever faults
we found from the very outset, or
within short time after his nomi-
nation for Mayor Of New York, with
his one-sided land theory and other
views--we did not ascribe to them
any importance as long as his honest
convictions, his earnest sympathy
with labor was undOubted. We
knew that a man of honest convic-
tions and lively sympathies for our
cause could not fail to bo very soon
fully converted TO the truths of our
science, could not become false
friend to us and our great cause
This fond hope, this great conf
dence, has been sadly baillcd. Los
ing confidence in dear friends
because they have deceived us is
among the bitterest experiences, it
makes some of us doubt, nay despair,
of human good faith. And that so
great talents as are embodied in
Ii. Georges writings and eloquencc
should be lost for a party which
needs them so much, is deplorable.
But after all this loss may be
blessing in diguise. If there is to be
a great loss, it is much better that
it should come soon, and not later,
when we should be less able to over
come it. If we are to be BETRAYED
in our confidence. let us rejoice that
only one years time and efforts are
squandered when we might have lost
a great deal more efforts in later
years. As it is we have made sad
experience which will render our
party wiser. We can much more
easily repair the wreck of our hopes
since they have not been fostered
very long. The wounds inflicted on
our party will heal rapidly because
we had not yet entrustad our false
friends with more serious tasks,
more responsible power, more
chances to damage the cause.
In fact, our loss may be gain. 1t
is less our loss than it is Henry
Georges loss. He might have turned
out one of the celebrated persons of
history, as the redeemer of Labor in
America from its Egyptian bondage.
His name might have gone down to
posterity as one of the heroes of all
ages. That has been prevented 10y
a man who betrays the confidence
of struggling humanity, and does so
furthermore by employing some of
the meanest tricks of the politicians
of the old parties as against his
brethren in the fight, his most de-
voted comrades, is unable to cause
us severer pangs, unable to hurt our
success, unable to triumph in any of
his ambitious undertakings. Among
all right-thinking men, even i'll the
ranks of the common enemy, he is
alleady set down as failure. A
would-be reformer and reyolutionist
who adopts the contemplate strata
gems of demagoues which he before
d,nounoel most eloquently, he draws
upon himself the contempt of friend
and foe, and will be regarded in the